Zero Trust Readiness Assessment
Identify where implicit trust, fragmented signals, or inconsistent policy leaves identities, devices, apps, data, and workloads exposed across your Microsoft environment.
Where are you still trusting by default?
This assessment is for CISOs, security architects, identity and endpoint leaders, cloud platform owners, and compliance teams planning a Zero Trust program or reassessing one after an incident, merger, remote-work expansion, AI adoption, cloud migration, or audit finding. It is useful when controls exist across multiple Microsoft portals but enforcement is inconsistent, privileged access is difficult to prove, unmanaged devices reach business data, or leadership lacks a prioritized path from strategy to implementation.
We review the Zero Trust pillars relevant to your environment: identities, endpoints, applications, data, infrastructure, networks, and visibility, automation, and orchestration. In scope can include Microsoft Entra ID and Conditional Access, Identity Protection, Privileged Identity Management, Microsoft Intune and device compliance, Defender for Endpoint, Defender XDR, Defender for Cloud, Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Purview information protection and DLP, Defender for Cloud Apps, Global Secure Access, Azure Policy, workload identities, application consent, network segmentation, and approved third-party signals.
You receive a Zero Trust Readiness Assessment Report, current-state maturity scorecard by pillar, trust-decision and signal map, policy and control-gap register, priority scenario matrix, target-state recommendations, and a phased 90-day roadmap. Sample findings may include legacy authentication, broad policy exclusions, standing administrative access, unmanaged-device access to sensitive data, weak workload identity governance, unverified application consent, inconsistent endpoint compliance, flat network paths, missing data labels, or security signals that are not connected to response workflows.
Our process
Replace implicit trust with verified, least-privilege access
We trace selected business scenarios from identity and device signals through access policy, resource authorization, data controls, monitoring, and response. Each finding identifies the trust assumption, affected users or assets, available evidence, business impact, control owner, dependency, and practical remediation.
Define business scenarios and trust boundaries
We identify critical users, administrators, devices, applications, workloads, data, and business processes, then document the access paths and trust decisions that matter most. Inputs include architecture diagrams, identity and device inventories, data classifications, critical application list, incident history, risk register, and regulatory requirements.
Priority scenarios
Validate identity and device signals
We review MFA and authentication methods, Conditional Access, Identity Protection, privileged roles, break-glass accounts, device join and compliance, endpoint protection, and access from unmanaged devices. Tests focus on whether policy decisions use reliable signals, limit privilege, and fail safely without blocking legitimate work.
Access assurance
Inspect apps, data, infrastructure, and networks
We sample application registrations and consent, workload identities, Defender for Cloud posture, Azure Policy, network segmentation, private access, information protection, DLP, cloud-app controls, and access to high-value resources. The review checks whether controls follow data and workloads across cloud, SaaS, hybrid environments, and approved AI services.
Control validation
Build a cross-pillar improvement roadmap
We rank gaps by attack path, business impact, coverage, user friction, licensing, effort, and dependency. The roadmap distinguishes urgent policy corrections from pilot programs, architecture changes, data governance, SecOps integration, and longer-term operating-model improvements.
Phased roadmap
OUR WORK
Typical duration and participants
A focused cross-pillar assessment typically takes three to four weeks after scope and access are confirmed. Core participants usually include an executive security sponsor, security architect, Entra ID and Intune owners, cloud platform and network leads, application and data security owners, SOC representatives, compliance stakeholders, and business owners for selected scenarios.
OUR WORK
Evidence and access required
Provide tenant and subscription architecture, user and privileged-role inventories, Conditional Access and authentication exports, device enrollment and compliance data, endpoint coverage, application and service-principal inventory, data classification and DLP policies, Azure Policy and Defender posture, network diagrams, incident samples, licensing details, security standards, and read-only access or agreed exports.
OUR WORK
Follow-on project matched to the finding
The next phase may be a Conditional Access and passwordless rollout, privileged-access remediation, Intune and Defender for Endpoint hardening, application and workload identity governance, Microsoft Purview data protection, Defender for Cloud improvement, Global Secure Access pilot, network segmentation, Sentinel and Defender XDR integration, AI access and data-protection controls, or a phased Zero Trust implementation program.
